I dont think it will deter the signings of Prado, Meds, or J-Hey. We will have money coming off the books the next several years (Mac, Huddy, Paul M.) I think we lock up Prado and J-Hey first, then Meds later. They probably want to see if Meds will produce for a full season as a starter.

I am excited for J Up to come to the Bravos. Though I would wish we could keep Teheran and trade Delgado, but I dont see that happening.

Prado for and Delgado for Upton? I’m guessing this is predicated on being able to pay Upton less for a couple of years than they would have to pay Prado. Who plays third? Francisco every day? Gonna miss Prado. He outhustled everyone.

As seems to be the consensus here, I’m not happy about including Prado in that package. We just traded what I’d consider the heart of the team, yet didn’t really solve our problem (a potential hole in either LF or 3B).

If nothing else, I take some (very) small consolation in the feel-good potential of nicknames for our new outfield. “Up, Up, and a Hey” anyone?

Good Lord. I do not like this at all. We’re going to have close to 700 strikeouts among six batting positions in our lineup. Simmons is now our only contact hitter. Prado could hit at leadoff or #2. With him gone, is B.J. the leadoff man? Let’s hope not. This move raises more questions than it answers.

The Braves waited on doing the Upton deal until they decided that the cost of signing Prado to an extension would be more than the cost of paying J. Upton for the next three seasons. Chris Johnson is a capable third baseman, and there’s now some wiggle room for extending the likes of Heyward, Medlen and Freeman, and we didn’t have to trade Teheran or EOF or Gattis in the deal. Ahmed is a nice player, but I doubt he’ll ever be as good as Simmons, and the Braves have enough pitching in the low minors that Spruill was expendable. I hated the Texeira deal from the get-go, but I like this one.

Strangely, Johnson has hit righties better than lefties. Francisco is awful against lefties, though, so maybe Johnson will get most of the ABs and Juan plays against certain right handers. Say Johnson gets 400 ABs and Juan 200, or something along those lines. That’s what I’d like to see, as Johnson is a better overall hitter than Francisco. Johnson’s OBP was 50 points higher last season. Or it could be a straight platoon. But, yeah, either way there are a lot of strikeouts in this lineup.